Greetings and salutations, I feel that I should explain my comic. I am in fact a fan of â€œgoodâ€ anime and at this very moment canâ€™t wait to watch the new episode of Blade of the Immortal.. My comic actually comes from the fact that I teach high school art. I am blessed to have some incredible talented students but the amount of manga rip offs I go threw when I get a fresh bunch of kids is staggering. I remember having to ban all Dragon Ball pics my first year teaching. I would like to thank Scott for letting me participate in the guest comics with all the other great creators. Oh and a small thing Scott, I gave you the link to my companies site instead of the comic if you get the chance could you switch the link to http://www.neo-earth.com Many thanks.

Yes, I completely agree. Miyazaki is amazing and I like some animes. But when I look at art in our society especially drawn by kids and teens, they rip off of the anime styles and just DON’T formulate their own original styles or they DON’T study from real life. They teach themselves how to draw anime but they don’t use the greatest teacher in the world to help them learn true anatomy- that teacher being life and real people.

Kaikuro, you brought up one of my mantras. Draw from life. Learning to draw from any cartoon is an abstraction of an abstraction and you can never develop your own style that way. Funny you mentioned Miyazaki, I just got a copy of the life action Grave of the Fireflys series. I have shown the animated version in my class for the last 8 years but I have never seen the live one.

Gotta agree Bryan. Anime is great, but one has to remember that it is a style. A serious artist must develope their own skill and technique. BTW, I really enjoy Neo Earth! It’s been in my fave’s list for a long time.

Hi Egtwel…
Yes. It may be just you.
Maybe try a different browser?
You should be seeing Page 1 of Chapter 13 right now up top.
Try clicking HOME at the top of my page (next to Start Reading)
Hope that helps.
Scott

I watch a lot of anime but I try mixing in real-life proportions in with my art. I’ve gotten to a point where people (say they) can tell that it’s my stuff since I use a lot of different drawing concepts from several areas and mix them together.
Love the comic tho! Sometimes the hair people come up with is just plain silly.